the last witcher

The next day, after Zhang Shihuai said hello to his family, he rode to his friend's house on horseback.Along the way, he was riding fast without stopping at all.Within half a day, Zhang Shihuai came to the home of his friend Gao An.Before dismounting, the servant who had already been guarding the door rushed to the front and took the reins of the horse.

"Master Zhang, my young master has been waiting for you for a long time." "Didn't I come here as soon as I received the letter?" Zhang Shihuai jumped off his horse and asked his servant Ding Haosheng to take care of his mount, and then strolled into the high courtyard by himself. In the courtyard of the government.

After receiving the report, Gao An got up and came out to greet him. Before he walked out of the living room, he met Zhang Shihuai who was stepping in.

"Brother Gao, I haven't seen you for a few days, so you're all right?" Zhang Shihuai sang a big chorus (a way of saluting in ancient times).

But Gao An didn't return the gift right away, but stared at Zhang Shihuai again and again. "What's the matter, brother Gao doesn't even know the younger brother's appearance?" Zhang Shihuai asked again very uncomfortably after being a little scared by the other party.

"You all go down first!" Gao An still did not return the gift, but retreated from the left and right servants, and then pulled Zhang Shihuai to the center of the living room. After the guests and hosts were seated, Gao An asked in a low voice: "Brother, there are no outsiders here, so you don't have to pretend to be with me." Confused!"

"Why am I pretending to be confused?" Gao An asked, making Zhang Shihuai confused, not knowing what kind of medicine the other party was selling in his gourd.

"Brother, don't you know such a big thing?" Gao An asked Zhang Shihuai in a slightly heavy voice.

"What's the matter?" Seeing the other party's hesitation, Zhang Shihuai stood up in a hurry and said, "You only said something urgent in your letter, so I came here in a hurry, but I got here Afterwards, you hesitated, what happened? If you don’t tell me, I’ll walk away!”

"I don't know what is the relationship between my brother and the witch Zen Ying?" Gao An asked tentatively.

"You have something to say, but it's okay to say it." Zhang Shihuai originally came to Gao An's place to escape Zen Ying, but he didn't expect it, and he mentioned this matter when he came up to cover his face.In desperation, I had no choice but to be sloppy, to see what the other party knew, and then make plans.

"It seems that you really don't know." Gao An continued with a solemn expression: "Zhan Ying is dead!"

"What?" Zhang Shihuai couldn't believe his ears, "Say it again?" "I said Chan Ying is dead!" As soon as Huang An's words fell, Zhang Shihuai fell down on the chair in an instant, and he didn't recover for a long time Come on.

"Don't make fun of this kind of thing, okay!" Zhang Shihuai, who was awake, shouted at Gao An who was beside him.It's no wonder, I was still on the street yesterday afternoon, I met him in the brothel, why did this good-natured living person disappear overnight?Impossible, absolutely impossible, the other party must have heard that he broke up with Chanying, and they are teasing him with this matter!Zhang Shihuai comforted himself in his heart, and at the same time he didn't dare to think in the worst direction.

"Do you like Chan Ying? Do you know how long I have liked each other? I thought you were the first to know about this, so I asked you to come over and ask in detail what happened to Chan Ying. But you don't even know the news of the other party's death, Chan Ying really loves the wrong person." Gao An said the sad part, tears streaming down the corners of his eyes.

"Impossible, you are lying to me." Seeing Gao An's appearance, Zhang Shihuai's heart sank directly, and then he swayed his body and came to Gao An's body, grabbed the other side's skirt and questioned loudly: " You're lying, aren't you? Tell me you're lying!"

Gao An pushed Zhang Shihuai away and grabbed his hands, and said angrily, "I'm planning to go to see Zen Shadow alone now. As for whether you follow or not, it's up to you." When the man came outside the house, he ordered the servants to prepare the horses and set off.

After the servant brought the horse, Zhang Shihuai stumbled out of the house: "Let's go together, I absolutely don't believe that Chan Ying will die."

"Huh!" Huang An snorted coldly, then got on the horse, raised the whip and whipped the horse's buttocks.After the horse suffered from the pain, it threw off its four hooves and galloped towards Lin'an Mansion.And Zhang Shihuai followed closely, afraid that if he was one step too late, he would not be able to see the last side of Chan Ying.

In the Criminal Division of Lin'an Prefecture Yamen, the criminal officer led the two nobles behind him with a full face of compliments.It's just that the two men both showed serious expressions.

"My lord, please take a look." The execution officer led the two of them to a certain mortuary bed, lifted the white cloth covering the corpse, and the pale face of Zen Ying directly caught their eyes.

"Zen Ying~~~!" Gao An, who saw the corpse, couldn't restrain his grief any longer, threw himself on the corpse and burst into tears.

Zhang Shihuai was also very sad in his heart, but he could bear it.After working so hard in the officialdom for so many years, he learned not to let his feelings out easily.

"How did she die?" Zhang Shihuai suppressed the incomparable grief in his heart, and asked the criminal judge beside him.

"My lord, the woman committed suicide." "Nonsense!" Gao Zhang and Zhang scolded in unison.Afterwards, the two big men looked at each other and regained their long-lost tacit understanding.

"How could such a woman who can see through the world commit suicide?" "Yeah, tell me, why did she commit suicide!" The two big men asked the criminal officer relentlessly.

"My lord, look!" The criminal judge completely lifted the white cloth, and then pointed to the wound on Chanying's wrist and reported again: "The woman cut her wrist and committed suicide on the ground of her house the night before. By chance, her friend went to her the next day. At home, he found that the door had not been bolted, so he opened the door and went in, only to find that the other party was lying in a pool of blood. The other party was so frightened that he was out of his wits, and immediately reported to the magistrate.

When Xiaguan arrived, the other party had already died of anger.It's just that what makes the lower official quite strange is the posture of the other party when he died. "Speaking of this, the criminal officer could not help but pause.

"Why, isn't it suicide, is it homicide?" Zhang Shihuai clenched his fists, his eyes shot out flames, which could almost melt everything in front of him, and Gao An was also angry. It could be seen that this man who didn't like to show his emotions, Hearing of this possibility, he was also really angry.

"After we rushed over, we found that the woman was lying on the ground, and the ground was full of coagulated blood, and there was a circle of rope around the outermost part of the blood, which surrounded all the blood from the woman, preventing a drop of blood from flowing out. Looking from a distance, the ropes surrounded by that circle are personalities. And among the smell of blood, there is also a smell of rouge and gouache, which is really strange!" said the criminal officer recalling the scene at that time.

to be continued